Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues.

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

I was born black and female.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

I am a gay American.

You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

We ask to be recognized as men.

You are responsible for the participation of all racial groups in FHA programs.

Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

I know that I'm not perfect. While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it's an issue that we have to control, that it's part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.

It's not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.

I'm black, and I'm human. I'm a woman, and I'm human. I believe in God, and I am human.

People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.

I'm just about social justice. Amen to women like me!